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Off duty police officer caught burglar while walking in park with her child

Daniel Brown was spotted climbing over a wall into the garden of a house in Temple Road, Exeter, from Bull Meadow Park by Pc Kerry Frayne.

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by Richard Booth

15:27, 24 Aug 2017

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Daniel Brown was spotted climbing over a wall into the garden of a house in Temple Road, Exeter.

A serial burglar has been jailed after he was caught red handed by an off duty police officer as she walked her young child in a public park.

Daniel Brown was spotted climbing over a wall into the garden of a house in Temple Road, Exeter, from Bull Meadow Park by Pc Kerry Frayne.

Bull Meadow Park by Pc Kerry Frayne.

She was suspicious and summoned colleagues while she watched the house and waited for the intruder to come out again.

The uniformed back up arrived just as Brown climbed back over the wall carrying a holdall full of stolen items. Pc Frayne shouted 'Stop Police' but he ran off, dropping the bag.

He was traced to a room where he was staying in South Street, Exeter, where a passport stolen in the Temple Street burglary was found in a pocket of his puffer jacket.

He had only been out of jail for a few weeks after being released half way through a 29 month sentence for a previous burglary in Exeter.

Daniel Brown was spotted climbing over a wall into the garden of a house in Temple Road, Exeter.

Brown, aged 20, of St Davids Hill, Exeter, admitted burglary and was jailed for two years and four months by Recorder Mr Rufus Taylor at Exeter Crown Court.

He told him he had no option but to impose a mandatory minimum sentence because this was Brown's fourth dwelling house burglary.

He said:"This is the least sentence I can impose. I hear that when you are released you will return to your family in Doncaster. I hope you will have their support and put all this behind you."

Mr Gordon Richings, prosecuting, said Pc Frayne was off duty and was entering Bull Meadow Park with her child on June 27 when she saw a young man in a dark blue track suit climbing a wall into a garden.